France

Italian playwright and librettist celebrated for his witty comedies that mirrored the lives and values of 18th-century Venetian society

Italian and naturalized French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer known for significant contributions to analysis, number theory, and mechanics

French philosopher known for his work on literature, film, and art, co-authoring *Capitalism and Schizophrenia* with Félix Guattari

Austrian novelist and journalist best known for his family saga Radetzky March and his novel of Jewish life Job

French physicist, engineer, and military officer known for Coulomb's law, describing electrostatic attraction and repulsion, and for pioneering work in friction and soil mechanics

French poet and writer known for seminal works like "Les Amours de Cassandre" and "Sonnets pour Hélène", a key figure in the Pléiade movement who revitalized French verse

Celebrated French writer, playwright, and novelist known for epic historical adventures like The Count of Monte Cristo and The forty-five guardsmen

French artist recognized for his versatile work as a painter, sculptor, and designer, contributing to French visual culture throughout his life

French rock and roll and pop singer and actor who brought rock and roll to France

Swiss physicist awarded the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering anomalies in nickel steel alloys, advancing precision measurements

French physicist and astronomer who invented the Foucault pendulum, measured the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and named the gyroscope